Saturday, December 4, 2021

gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\, noun:

• A hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.

Gallimaufry, originally meaning "a hash of various kinds of meats," comes from French galimafrée, from Old French, from galer, "to rejoice, to make merry" (source of English gala) + mafrer, "to eat much," from Medieval Dutch maffelen, "to open one's mouth wide."

 

word receptacle, n. 

• The person that is on the receiving side of a one way conversation.

I couldn't get a word in edgewise. She kept talking to me about her shoes, purse, and how her best friend just got dumped. I am a word receptacle.

History

• Chicago: was founded with a mission established by French priest Jacques Marquette on the shore of Lake Michigan (1674)
• suttee: the Hindu practice of a widow's self-immolation on her husband's funeral pyre was outlawed by the British in India (1829)
• Mary Celeste: the ship was discovered heading toward the Strait of Gibraltar, sound if somewhat wet, but all its crew and passengers were missing and have never been found (1872)
• The Los Angeles Times: began publication; it is now the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the US (1881)

Birthdays

• Wassily Kandinsky 1866
• Francisco Franco 1892
• Deanna Durbin 1921
• Wink Martindale 1934
• Max Baer Jr. 1937
• John Cale 1940
• Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon 1940
• Chris Hillman 1942
• Bob Mosley 1942 - Musician (Moby Grape)
• Chris Hillman 1942 - Musician (Flying Burrito Brothers, Byrds)
• Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys) 1944
• Southside Johnny Lyon 1948
• Jeff Bridges 1949
• Patricia Wettig 1951
• Gary Rossington 1951 - Musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Anthony "Tony" Todd 1954 - Actor (The Crow)

• Cassandra Wilson 1955
• Brian Prout 1955 - Musician (Diamond Rio)
• Bob Griffin 1959 - Musician (The BoDeans)
• Vinnie Dombroski 1962 - Musician (Sponge)
• Jozef Sabovcik 1963
• Marisa Tomei 1964 - Actress
• Chelsea Noble 1964
• Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) 1969 - Rapper
• Tyra Banks 1973
• Lila McCann 1981
• Orlando Brown 1987